Eleanor Coppola, wife and mother of big names in world cinematography, died this Friday, April 12, at her home in Rutherford, a small town among the vineyards of Napa, northern California. The family announced the news to the Associated Press agency, without citing the causes of her death.

She had been ill for some time; At the beginning of last October, her daughter Sofia missed the New York premiere of her latest film, Priscilla, a portrait of Elvis Presley's wife. In 1991 she transformed that material from what was already a cult film and winner of eight Oscars into an hour and a half documentary, Hearts in Darkness. This magnificent portrait of the difficulties of the world of cinema earned numerous nominations in the awards season and won two Emmys. In 2016 she made her debut in fiction, with Paris Can Wait, a romantic film with Diane Lane and Alec Baldwin. She always said that her family was the center of her life, but beyond being the wife of the great master Francis Ford Coppelola and the mother of Sofia, also a director, she developed her own interesting career.